Coach, I don't want to retire yet

Chapter 597 Dreamy Footsteps, I miss it so much!
Fake!

This is Tim Duncan?!

Even after the baptism of the legendary NBA All-Star Game a few years ago, at this moment, there are still many people who are shocked by the dunk by Duncan who supported O'Neal and jumped over him during warm-ups.

Of course, there were many old Wake Forest fans at the scene, and they were definitely incredibly crazy.

came back!
The flying devils of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons are back!

Especially Paul who was on the sidelines at this time, Paul in a suit and tie, stood up excitedly and wanted to rush into the court.

As a native of Winston-Salem, Wake Forest is naturally the main team that Paul supports. He grew up watching Duncan play at Wake Forest, and Duncan is naturally one of his idols.

At that time, the giants in the NCAA's ACC league, such as North Carolina and Duke, almost all extended olive branches to Paul. In the end, Paul chose to follow Duncan's footsteps and went to Wake Forest University.

Although Wake Forest University is not as powerful as North Carolina Duke and other top schools, it is also a famous basketball school in North Carolina. It is one of the reasons why Paul likes basketball. It was the influence of Wake Forest University, which was led by Duncan, that made Paul embark on the path of basketball.

Back then, the flying devil Duncan made Paul crazy for four whole years.

Although Paul is not very old, he is definitely one of the oldest Duncan fans here.

Even one of them may not be needed.

Duncan started playing basketball at the age of 15 and entered Wake Forest University at the age of 17. It can be said that Paul witnessed Duncan's growth.

No one knows better than Paul what Duncan was like before.

Duncan has been known as the representative of old man basketball in recent years, but in fact, the basketball he played when he was young was quite violent.

There are many such slam dunks, fly dunks, and split dunks on other people's basketballs.

Unexpectedly, Duncan is back like this!

"Iverson actually helped Tim Duncan regain his athletic ability? Incredible Iverson, incredible Coach D!"

The groundbreaking dunk by Duncan and O'Neal made the entire Charlotte Arena boil.

It also made the entire NBA boil.

Soon, the warm-up of the two teams was over and the starting players were announced.

For the Bobcats, the starters are O'Neal, Duncan and Thabeet as well as Beasley and Jordan.

This is a crazy starting lineup!

Among the five starting players, Jordan, who is 1 meters tall, is the shortest, and there is not even a point guard.

Rose, Parker, and Kidd all sat on the bench.

The Lakers' starting lineup was equally incredible.

Yao Ming, Antetokounmpo, Ebanks, McGrady and Kobe.

There is also no point guard.

Seeing the ten starting players on the court, Budenholzer and other coaches in the think tank were all dumbfounded.

In fact, they were dumbfounded when they saw Duncan flying.

"Luckily Popo didn't listen to us!"

Yes, luckily Pop didn't listen to them.

Otherwise, if Popovich really listens to them and arranges a relatively small offensive lineup, he will be beaten to death by the Bobcats and Coach D!

Coach D is not plotting anything at all. He can really bring back Tim Duncan's peak athletic ability!

"Coach D doesn't care about any tricks, because he wants to defeat his opponent in the strongest possible way!"

"Incredible Bobcats! Incredible Coach D!"

It is incredible that the Lakers have built a team with three Goats.

I didn’t expect Coach D to build a Bobcats team with four Goats!

Duncan, Thabeet, O'Neal, Jordan and Beasley.

Except for O'Neal, the other four are all Goats!

Even O'Neal is not far from Goat, he just lacks some physical strength.

O'Neal has the weight and offensive and defensive skills of his peak period, and the athletic ability of his youth!

If O'Neal is given a prop to lock his physical strength, he will also be a GOAt-level player.

Because of his lack of physical strength, O'Neal needs to conserve his energy, so he is usually reserved in offense and defense. Otherwise, he would run out of energy after just ten minutes of a game, let alone 20 minutes.

"Tim, I don't want to have any regrets in this game or this finals!"

O'Neal was very excited and was very excited to be dunked over by Duncan.

What made me even more excited was seeing Yao Ming and Kobe standing opposite me!

The game started, Yao Ming and O'Neal came to the center circle, and both prepared for a jump ball.

In fact, based on actual jump ball strength, Thabeet and Antetokounmpo may be stronger.

However, at this moment, no one will stand up to compete with Yao Ming and O'Neal.

The whole world knows about the feud between these two. In the past ten years, these two have been the two strongest centers in the NBA. Since Yao Ming entered the NBA in 2002, the Yao-Shaq duel has been the youth of many people.

The players appearing on the court at this time include veterans and young players.

In fact, most of the spectators who appeared on the sidelines at this time were younger audiences. Young here means born after 2002.

Even though Howard had a brief period of glory and Olajuwon had a brief return during this period, O'Neal and Yao Ming were still the strongest.

Even from the time O'Neal won his first championship in 2000 to now, in the past 16 years, Yao Ming and O'Neal have been the two strongest centers during this period.

Even if we extend the time a little bit, in the 70 years of the NBA, Yao Ming and O'Neal can both compete for the strongest center.

You can say that the center with the highest status in NBA history may be Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Russell, or even Chamberlain, but if you want to say the strongest, most people now support Yao Ming, followed by O'Neal.

Of course, before Yao Ming's crazy playoff season, O'Neal was recognized as the most dominant center in NBA history.

Now that O'Neal has returned, is it just to win the championship? Of course not, even a fool knows that he wants to defeat Kobe and take back his title of the strongest from Yao Ming.

At this moment, no one, unless they are a fool, would compete with O'Neal for Yao Ming.

Yao Ming and O'Neal stood in the center circle and jumped the ball, which really made many Chinese fans in front of the TV excited and crazy.

When this scene appeared, even many fans who followed Yao Ming to watch the NBA back then had tears in their eyes.

Even Du Kang, seeing the scene of O'Neal and Yao Ming jumping the ball in the center circle at this moment, showed an excited and satisfied smile on his face.

Yes, very excited, very satisfied, it's the feeling of regaining my youth.

Yao Ming, McGrady, Yao Ming, those were his youth!

"Yao, I didn't expect that we would have the opportunity to stand together again. Moreover, this time, it's not the regular season, but the finals!"

Yao Ming never expected that there would be such a day. In fact, when he retired from the NBA due to injury, he never thought that there would be a day when he would come back, win a championship, or even become the recognized strongest player in NBA history.

"Yao, I know you have been reserving your strength and want to leave the stage to TMC and Kobe. I can understand your feelings, but I hope you can also take care of mine. This finals is also my last dance in the NBA. TMC and Kobe want to show their strongest selves to Michael Jordan, and I will also show my strongest self to you. So, I hope to see the strongest you too!" O'Neal's words moved Yao Ming.

Not only Yao Ming was moved, but even Kobe and McGrady next to him and others looked at O'Neal in shock.

Yao Ming has never shot at full strength since that super playoff performance, and no one is so blind as to ask him to do so, because the consequences for Bosh were too disastrous.

Let’s put it this way, Bosh was frightened to the point of fainting and having a heart attack by Yao Ming on the court. Do you really think Bosh is trash?
Do you really think the rockets back then were garbage?
In fact, most NBA players are not as good as Bosh, and most teams are not as good as the Rockets.

Yao Ming feels that he is in good physical condition and is still young. He wants to be the third player in the Lakers and protect Kobe and McGrady. He does not want to steal the limelight from these two.

Yao Ming took the initiative to choose to keep a low profile and to preserve his strength. Most teams and players were very happy about this, so there was no one so blind as to demand that Yao Ming must demonstrate his strongest strength.

Isn't there something wrong with this?
O'Neal seems to have something wrong with him now. What is Yao Ming's strength? Why has Goat continued to emerge in the past two years, but Yao Ming is still recognized as the number one by experts and fans?

Because Yao Ming is really strong!

The kind of strong that is invincible!
Because anyone who has watched basketball knows how powerful a player who can easily get a quadruple-double is!

Just as O'Neal himself said when he was a commentator, there has never been a player in the history of the NBA who can treat a quadruple-double as an ordinary statistic!
If Goat is the highest level of strength among NBA players.

Then Yao Ming is definitely beyond the Goat level.

simply put.

Yao Ming, who is ranked first, is actually not in the same league as the six that follow.

Facing O'Neal's extremely serious and expectant eyes, Yao Ming did not say anything, but just nodded.

He is indeed trying not to steal the limelight from Kobe and Mai Zi.

I want to provide these two people with a perfect stage and a perfect departure.

But now, this stage is even more gorgeous and perfect than he had imagined. The stage created by Coach Durant not only belongs to McGrady and Kobe, but also has a place for him.

Of course, there is also room for O'Neal, Thabeet, Beasley, Jordan and Duncan.

In fact, he is also very excited to see the current O'Neal, the current Thabeet, and the current Duncan.

Yao Ming promised to show O'Neal his best self.

This undoubtedly excited O'Neal, and also excited the audience at the scene, in front of the TV and on the Internet.

Who doesn’t like to watch this kind of super-strong showdown?

Finally, the ball was thrown into the air by the referee.

O'Neal and Yao Ming jump ball.

O'Neal jumps faster and Yao Ming is taller.

In theory, the two players' jumping ball abilities are about the same.

however!
The golden jumping master, the golden ball-scrambling maniac!
These two badges made Yao Ming jump up almost at the same time as O'Neal!
Jumping at the same time, Yao Ming was so much taller.

If O'Neal's jumping speed has no advantage, then his higher jumping advantage will be a complete disadvantage in the face of height.

No matter how high you jump, it takes time to get from low to high.

For tall players, it doesn’t take that long, or even no time at all, to go from low to high.

In the jump ball of this game, Yao Ming easily defeated O'Neal.

"Oh my God, this is the first time O'Neal failed a jump ball this season!"

"O'Neal was definitely serious this time, but he was still easily defeated by Yao. In fact, jump ball may be Yao's weakest skill!!!"

"Yao's weakest skill defeated one of Shaq's strongest skills! I already have a feeling Shaq will suffer a lot in this game!"

In fact, even without Barkley's premonition, O'Neal also felt that the declaration he made to Yao Ming at the beginning of the game might have opened up an incredible and terrifying monster.

The Lakers successfully jumped the ball, Kobe caught the ball and dribbled across half court, while Jordan was waiting for Kobe in the center circle.

"Half-court press, this is Jordan's half-court press!!!"

Almost at the same time, the live broadcast camera very interestingly turned the camera to Leonard, Smart, Paul George and other Celtics players on the sidelines. It would have been even better if James was there.

Faced with Jordan's tight defense, these Celtics players couldn't even get through half court.

He didn't even dare to dribble against Jordan in a one-on-one match, which meant that the Celtics, who didn't have an excellent point guard, had their offense almost destroyed by Jordan alone.

This forced Celtics fans to recognize Jordan as their father at home.

Now Jordan is using the same old trick to put Kobe under tight defense.

How can this not be exciting?

Jordan, the best pressing defense in NBA history!
Kobe, the best ball protection player in NBA history!
This is the strongest battle of contradictions!

Jordan covered Kobe, but Kobe showed no fear at all when facing Jordan who was covering him, and he didn't even need his teammates to support him.

Back to the opponent, collision, and then turn around!
Kobe easily resolved Jordan's tight defense!
Du Kang on the sidelines could clearly see that Kobe had perfected his Killing Body and Becoming God Technique after he left, and had learned how to leverage the force instead of just blindly crashing into things. This allowed Kobe to be more calm when using Killing Body and Becoming God Technique, and it didn't require so much energy.

It can be said that Kobe has become more at ease than before, and his perfect skills can be displayed more easily.

Moreover, after passing Jordan, he faced Jordan who was coming towards him again from behind.

Not only did Kobe fail to speed up, but it was as if he had eyes behind him, always keeping Jordan behind him!

Jordan didn't dare to leave or go around Kobe at all, because Kobe's three-point shooting range was extremely long. Not to mention compared with the Curry brothers, the difference was not far behind!

In the end, Jordan protected Kobe and went outside the three-point line.

Jordan's half-court press was turned into a bodyguard by Kobe's ball protection!
Of course, Kobe never found a chance to shoot by using his ball control and protection.

"Wonderful! Djoko's first fight was amazing!!!"

"This is a showdown between Goats!"

"This makes me look forward to the matchup between Yao and Shark even more!"

Kobe passed the ball, and it turned out to be Yao Ming!
then!

Everyone who was looking forward to the Yao-Shaq matchup was dumbfounded.

Because, Shaquille O'Neal actually flew up! !
Yao Ming, who hadn't even received the ball, shook off O'Neal without the ball!!!

This is so fucking stupid that it makes people dumbfounded!

O'Neal, flying in the air, looked at Yao Ming and was equally shocked.

Shanghai footsteps?

Do not!
"Dream Steps!"

I miss it so much...

Catch the ball and make a layup, all in one go!
Yao attacks Shark and kills easily!

(End of this chapter)